Joseph Conrad: East European, Polish, and Worldwide

by Krajka, Wieslaw

• ISBN13: 9780880334457
• ISBN10: 0880334452
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-07-01
• Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr

Summary

A collection of essays written by eminent and emerging Conrad scholars from all corners of the world, this book deals with (1) Joseph Conrad's East European and Polish contexts and (2) Joseph Conrad's imperial and American contexts, as well as selected ethical-philosophical and textological-narrative issues. A wide spectrum of themes and aspects of the literary output of Joseph Conrad is addressed as well: from ethical issues to mythical organization of Conradian universe, from analysis of the method of narration to textological studies, from parallels with Whitman and Turgenev to the influence of Dostoevsky and of Polish romantic literature, from post-Freudian to feminist Dutch literature on Indonesia to examination in terms of Indian philosophy of Sri Aurobindo, from mythical anthropological readings of the influence of Polish ethnos and culture to application of elements of Jewish folklore.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(10)
Wieslaw Krajka
Part I: JOSEPH CONRAD: EAST EUROPEAN, POLISH
Commitment to the Ego-Ideal and Betrayal	11	(30)
Nursel Icoz
Joseph Conrad's Under Western Eyes: The Language of Politics and the Politics of Language	41	(20)
Phyllis Toy
Conrad's Perspectives on Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment: An Examination of Under Western Eyes	61	(26)
Mildred C. Andersen
Stevie: Conrad's Christ?	87	(26)
Monika Majewska:
Artistic Aspects of Character Creation in Lord Jim by Conrad and Rudin by Turgenev	113	(18)
Katarzyna Sokolowska
The Multiple Identities of Yanko Goorall	131	(34)
Wieslaw Krajka
A Waxwork form the Wax Museum of Polish Romanticism	165	(20)
Anna Brozozowska-Krajka
Part II: ...AND WORLDWIDE
Spatial Axiology of the Sea, the Land and Ships in Conrad's Sea Fiction	185	(16)
Wojciech Kozak
Conrad's Leggatt and the Jewish Golem: Where Parallel Lines Meet	201	(14)
Carl Schaffer
Surface as Suggestive Energy. Fascination and Voice in Conrad's ``Heart of Darkness''	215	(22)
Hans Ulrich Seeber
Empire Looks East: Spectatorship and Subjectivity in ``Karain: A Memory''	237	(20)
James N.Brown
Patricia M. Sant
The Woman in White and the Man in Motley: Aspects of Hybridism in Conrad's Almayer's Folly and ``Heart of Darkness''	257	(20)
Solange Ribeiro de Oliveira
The Imperial Editor: Language, Race, and Conrad's Lord Jim	277	(18)
Steven Trout
Beb Vuyk's ``Full of Sound and Fury'' A Journey into ``Heart of Darkness''	295	(16)
Patrycja Poniatowska
An Eastern Appreciation of Joseph Conrad: His Treatment of Evil in ``Heart of Darkness'' and Under Western Eyes	311	(18)
Anita Mathew
``Heart of Darkness'' and Walt Whitman's ``Passage to India''	329	(12)
Daniel Fraustino
Reconsidering Conrad's The Shorter Tales of Joseph Conrad	341	(20)
Jorge Sacido-Romero
Index of Names	361	(8)
Index of Conrad's Works	369